Chinese political parties

On Qi extra recent episode the question was asked, "how many Legal political parties does china have"
the answer was given as 8 including the communist party.

This is incorrect as the Communist party of china does not exist as a legal party. this was discovered when a pro democratic activist tried to sue the party. He eventually received the reply that you can not sue the party because it does not exist.

this was recently mirrored when the greek finance minister tried to argue that Greece had a legal right to be in European meetings involved with bailout discussions. When Excluded, Yanis Varoufakis asked for legal clarification and received the reply that the EU does not have a legal status.